Russia has nearly doubled its defense budget plan after spending more in the first half of 2023 than originally targeted for the entire year, Reutersreported Friday, citing a government document it obtained.

Defense spending has increased every month since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in February last year. In June, Russia stopp

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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu went to the war zone in Ukraine to check a command post and recorded Western military hardware, the armysaid Friday.Footage released by the Defense Ministry revealed Shoigu boarding a helicopter, conference with officers and checking a Swedish armored combat lorry captured by Russian forces. The video
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Russia claimed Friday it had thwarted Ukrainian sea and air drone attacks on a naval base in the Black Sea and the Crimean peninsula.

"Tonight, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, with the use of two unmanned sea boats, attempted an attack on the Novorossiysk naval base of the Russian Armed Forces," the Defense Ministry said on the Telegram messaging app,

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Russia has actually employed over 230,000 extra personnel into the army since the start of the year, Moscow's Deputy Security Council Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday.Moscow has actually carried out an aggressive military recruitment campaign this year as it seeks to ward off an ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive and hold territories it has actually recorded
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At least 79 civilians have actually been killed on Russian soil since Moscow introduced its intrusion of Ukraine in 2015, the independent news website 7x7 reported Tuesday.The Belgorod region which surrounds Ukraine, which has actually regularly been targeted by drone attacks and shelling, saw the highest share of civilian losses, with 48 individuals killed.Other
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A controversial new expense looking for to alleviate logging restrictions along the shores of Lake Baikal could deal permanent damage to the Siberian lake's unique environment, specialists and activists have informed The Moscow Times.Baikal was declared a UNESCO World Heritage website in 1996 and recognized as the planet's most outstanding example of a freshwater e
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